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17 de ago. de 2018 · The Filmmaker Who Was Not An Ardent Fan Of Cinema. While placing Ritwik Ghatak on the pages of the history of Indian cinema, Paul Willemen and Ashish Rajadhyaksha claim that from the purview of aesthetics, Ghatak’s work “can be placed alongside that of Bengali novelist Manik Bandyopadhyay and the teachings of his music forbear Ustad Allauddin Khan.”
Ritwik Ghatak naît en 1925 à Dacca, aujourd’hui capitale du Bangladesh, dans une famille appartenant à une caste de brahmanes et comptant neuf enfants. Le père est magistrat et sanskritiste. Ghatak passe son enfance et une partie de sa jeunesse à Rajshahi, aujourd’hui à la frontière du Bangladesh et de l’Inde.
Ritwik Ghatak. “Why films? Because I am totally crazy. I can’t live without making films. I look at the struggle and misery of contemporary life. And try to say something to the best of my ability.”.
Ghatak came of age during the convulsions of the 1940s—World War II, the terrible "man-made famine" of 1944, the communal violence that came with independence, and especially the partition of Bengal, which obsessed him all his life. His subjects are almost invariably chosen from among the uprooted and the dispossessed: parentless children ...
24 de ene. de 2014 · Ritwik Ghatak. Allzine. enero 24, 2014. Biografías. Influido sobre todo por Eisenstein, Ritwik Ghatak realizó filmes políticamente comprometidos y fue el autor más influyente en toda una generación de cineastas indios como Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, John Abraham, Mani Kaul, Kumar Sahani y Ketan Mehta, cuyos nombres se han ...
29 de mar. de 2020 · The Partition haunted Ritwik Ghatak all his life as did the subject of refugees. He identified himself with the pain and anguish of refugees who lost their entity and had to readjust in the alien environment. In his book, Cinema and I, Ghatak had said: “Cinema, to me, is a means of expressing my anger at the sorrows and sufferings of my people”
Ritwik Ghatak starb 1976 an Tuberkulose und Alkoholmissbrauch. Sein filmisches Werk fand die gebührliche Beachtung erst nach seinem Tode. Er zählt heute, wie auch seine bengalischen Kollegen Satyajit Ray und Mrinal Sen, zu den bedeutendsten indischen Regisseuren des Autorenfilms.
